Henry David Thoreau quotes - page 16

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now. (Henry David Thoreau)
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. View quote
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As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail. View quote
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Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable. View quote
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An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. View quote
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All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. View quote
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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being. View quote
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? View quote
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. View quote
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Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. View quote
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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else. (Henry David Thoreau)
Faith never makes a confession. View quote
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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. View quote
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I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. View quote
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How can any man be weak who dares to be at all? View quote
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May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love! View quote
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. View quote
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. View quote
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I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid. View quote
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Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder. View quote
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There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor. (Henry David Thoreau)
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way. View quote
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. View quote
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Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once. View quote
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There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. View quote
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